latest skrillex video is pretty intense.

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pontifex

pontifex

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wow, that passes as music these days? video was fairly interesting but the music was beyond terrible.
 
Meghan54

Meghan54

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brblx said:
he's actually pretty talented; it's similar to how people who don't listen to the harder varieties of rock and metal and call it 'noise.'

however, i did finally realize why this song is so familiar- he already made it. and it's still really popular.
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Talented, maybe. The video was pretty good.

The music was just too damned repetitive and the vocals.....if I wanted to listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks, I'd go find the original crap and listen to it. This was just bloody awful.

And as for me possibly being one of those oldsters who call heavy metal rock "noise" because I may have not listened to it, au contraire, mon frère.

That is unless you don't count growing up and listening to and enjoying bands like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Uriah Heep, Jeff Beck Group, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, Humble Pie as having any appreciation for the heavy metal genre.

And that song sounded like ass compared to any "old" heavy metal out there. Maybe sounded good vs. "new" metal, but then what does that say about today's metal?
 
brblx

brblx

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Meghan54 said:
And as for me possibly being one of those oldsters who call heavy metal rock "noise" because I may have not listened to it, au contraire, mon frère.

That is unless you don't count growing up and listening to and enjoying bands like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Uriah Heep, Jeff Beck Group, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, Humble Pie as having any appreciation for the heavy metal genre.

And that song sounded like ass compared to any "old" heavy metal out there. Maybe sounded good vs. "new" metal, but then what does that say about today's metal?
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i giggled.

yes, your parents probably called that 'noise,' too. i don't particularly dislike any of it but the only thing there that i actually listen to by choice is hendrix.

i listen to a shitton of modern metal that you'd probably hate. pretty much none in the actual 'heavy metal' genre. prog metal, metalcore, posthardcore, melodic death metal...all kinds of things going by various names that are all actually fairly related genre mashups. the frequent combination of speed and harsh vocals turns most off, but if you really want to be a 'metalhead,' you certainly can't write off all modern metal music just because FM radio sucks dick.

edit to clarify:

1. i do not endorse 'nickelback vocals'. for 'strained' see someone like dustin kensrue of thrice, which is a band i generally recommend to everyone. for outright gutteral death growls, look at some swedish metal like opeth or amon amarth.
2. i don't claim anyone who hates dubstep has bad taste. it's a weird genre and a lot of it is shit. like a lot of techno, trance, dance, et al, it's bound to be repetitive. it's INTENDED to be repetitive. i like stuff more into progressive or experimental kind of territory...which music like this used to be, but now it's obviously been boiled down to a simple formula.
 
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brblx

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YES i knew it reminded me of aphex twin but all i could think of was windowlicker (and i cried).
 
Krynj

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Never heard of Skrillex before this. I'm always down for some new techno, and this isn't bad at all. Gonna check out his full length now.
 
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